Douluo: Dragon King's Divine Elegy

Chapter 82 Xuanzi: I'm a player from Season 2, can you please not mention me in Season 3?
Nan Liujing went through Ya Li's back door.

Therefore, there was no normal entrance examination, and he quickly completed the enrollment procedures.

It was only at this point that Nan Liujing realized just how significant the difference in treatment between inner and outer academy students really was.

Inner Academy students don't have to pay for meals, enjoy free and unlimited use of the simulated training grounds, and have five opportunities each week to consult with top-tier Inner Academy instructors. It can be said that the scope covers almost every field, even civil engineering.

Shrek Academy controls Shrek City, and the academy owns a wide variety of businesses within the city. If students cannot stay at the academy, they often go to work for various companies, contributing to the academy's revenue.

"Welcome to the Shrek Academy family." Ya Li accepted the student card handed to her by the head of the inner academy's teaching department and smiled as she welcomed Nan Liujing.

Leng Yaozhu thought to herself, "I'm just an exchange student; I'm not part of your group."

"Thank you." Nan Liujing chuckled and extended an invitation. "As the old saying goes, 'No fight, no friendship.' I'd like to get to know the students. I wonder if Your Majesty would be willing to act as a referee alongside my teacher?"

Ya Li glanced at Leng Yaozhu, who had a calm expression, and gently reminded her, "The group of inner court students you just met are at least Soul King level. Even without using your battle armor, you'll be at a disadvantage in the fight."

Suffering a loss... Nan Liujing remained calm, a smile playing on his lips: "How about this, Your Majesty, let's make a bet?"

"What are we betting on?" Ya Li became interested. The other students had never seen her so obedient, unlike Nan Liu Jing who spoke so frankly.

Nan Liujing said, "If I can successfully take on three opponents at once... then..." His lips moved slightly, and he began to transmit his voice.

Ya Li raised an eyebrow slightly. The headmaster standing to the side, however, stared wide-eyed; he had been ignored.

Leng Yaozhu seemed lost in thought and didn't interrupt.

Ya Li was silent for a while, then said, "I can't make this decision myself; I have to ask Brother Ming."

“Of course,” Nan Liujing said with a smile. “It’s okay if you don’t gamble; it’s just an extra bonus anyway.”

The content of the conversation left the head of the teaching department somewhat bewildered. Only after the three left did he realize something.

One versus three?

This is the inner courtyard. What is this kid who caused such a huge uproar in the academy half a year ago planning to do?
As Ya Li left the teaching building, her thoughts instantly spread out, and Yun Ming, who was far away on Seagod Island, immediately sensed his wife's call.

The two communicated from a considerable distance.

When they were about to return to the square, Ya Li suddenly said, "Brother Ming agreed, but since it's a bet, it can't be a one-sided bet."

Nan Liujing's eyes flickered slightly: "What does Your Majesty mean?"

Ya Li smiled and said, "If you win, the academy will grant your request. If you lose, when you succeed Zhen Hua as the Divine Craftsman, you will forge a set of Heavenly Forging Metal for the academy to make a set of four-word battle armor. Of course, we will provide the materials ourselves."

"how?"

"Okay." Nan Liujing immediately agreed. A set of Heavenly Forging Metal was far from enough to meet his requirements.

Once we get our hands on it, we'll have the opportunity to eliminate a major threat.

His bet requirements were simple.

Shrek Academy owes him compensation. Normally, compensation has limitations, but his bet is that when seeking compensation, he can bypass those limitations and choose any item from Shrek Academy.

Yun Ming might have thought he would choose a rare, top-tier soul bone, since the soul bone wall inside the Golden Ancient Tree space was extremely eye-catching, but would the Spirit Pagoda lack such a thing?
The inner courtyard, the martial arts training ground.

The interplay of rising and falling soul power fluctuations collided with the soul power shields, preventing the energy impact from damaging the outside world.

The pressure on the inner court students mainly comes from their two-word battle armor, but apart from that, they have a lot of free time on weekdays, which has fostered their love of sparring to hone their skills.

At a glance, the huge training ground was filled with more than fifty inner court students, most of whom were over twenty years old.

"Your Holiness the Holy Spirit?"

As the sparring heatedly progressed, a group of people walking in from outside the training grounds attracted everyone's attention. The leader, Ya Li, was so conspicuous that everyone in the inner courtyard recognized her.

"That guy is..."

As people watched, their eyes suddenly widened. Behind Ya Li, the handsome young man with a tall and straight posture was none other than Nan Liujing, the one who forced the academy to apologize!
correct.

They then realized that the Holy Spirit Douluo had said this person would come to the academy as an exchange student.

Seeing another group of a dozen or so people following along expressionlessly, the group exchanged glances and immediately perked up.

The training ground was large, with empty fighting arenas. After Ya Li led everyone inside, she immediately said, "I and the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo from the Spirit Pagoda will serve as referees and supervise this friendly sparring match. Remember, the use of battle armor is not allowed."

After speaking, Ya Li nodded slightly to Nan Liujing.

Nan Liujing walked into the center of the arena without any politeness, his gaze sweeping over Nan Xiaxia and the others: "I'll choose my opponents, is that alright?"

“Okay.” Nan Xiaxia spoke first, and the others nodded, their eyes filled with fervent emotion. Everyone wanted to be the one to defeat Nan Liujing.

As for the claim that one's cultivation level is higher than the opponent's, and therefore winning would be dishonorable.

That's all nonsense; winning is the only thing that matters.

"The three of you can come together." Nan Liujing tapped his finger lightly in the air, as if selecting goods.

Some of the older inner court students who had come to watch were stunned.

Nan Xiaxia said with a gloomy expression, "You want to take on three people at once?"

Are you kidding me? You're already amazing if you can fight against a Soul King, but you want to take on three at once?

"Why not?" Nan Liujing retorted. "I've killed evil soul masters with the cultivation of a Soul Emperor. Do you think you're stronger than him?"

Upon hearing this, Nan Xiaxia and the others felt as if their necks had been gripped, their faces turning red, and they couldn't find any words to refute it.

Yes, Gu Yue's claim that Nan Liujing killed an evil soul master on the Soul Guidance Train and was subsequently awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Tian Dou City has been officially confirmed by Tian Dou City.

The footage captured by the camera did indeed confirm the scene of him killing the sixth-ring evil spirit master on his own.

"Alright." Nan Xiaxia, Feng Jing'er, and Yan Jin exchanged a glance. He then respectfully addressed Holy Spirit Douluo and Leng Yaozhu, saying, "Your Excellencies, it was he who proposed to fight three against one. If he is seriously injured by accident, it won't be our fault, right?"

Nan Liujing laughed on the spot: "Not to mention that my teacher, Tianfeng Douluo, is a Limit Douluo, and Holy Spirit Douluo is a level 98 Super Douluo. Don't you find it a bit funny that someone can seriously injure a Super Douluo?"

After he finished speaking, he blinked.

Oh, that's pretty funny. It seems like someone actually did achieve that.

Nan Xiaxia's face stiffened, and she took a deep breath to remain calm.

Feng Jing'er and Yan Jin snorted coldly and said nothing. The three of them immediately walked into the competition area.

With a wave of her hand, Ya Li injected energy into the sidelines, and a bright yellow soul power shield unfolded. Whether they were older students watching the show or those who had just been promoted from pre-selected students to inner court students, they all stared at the competition stage with great seriousness.

It's true that they wanted to put Nan Liujing in a bad light, but it's also true that they acknowledged that the other party's strength should not be underestimated.

Although lightning-attribute soul masters are generally considered to have an advantage over evil soul masters, being able to defeat a six-ring soul master with only three rings is an absolutely astonishing feat.

On the arena, Nan Liujing stood forty meters apart from Nan Xiaxia and the others.

Yali solemnly declared, "Let the sparring begin!"

hum~
In an instant, fifteen soul rings rose rapidly. Apart from Feng Jing'er, who had five purple soul rings, Nan Xiaxia and Yan Jin both had four purple and one black soul ring.

The auras of the three Soul Kings quickly began to dominate the arena. Feng Jing'er was enveloped in a phantom, her delicate body seemingly hidden in the light, making her impossible to discern.

Her martial soul, the Phantom Falcon, is incredibly fast, but unlike Bai Chenxiang's Swift, which is a pure speed-type soul master, her attack power is extremely fierce. Against opponents weaker than herself, she can often put on a show of instant kill.

A rhombus-shaped pink crystal appeared on Nan Xiaxia's forehead, and her body crystallized into a half-dragon, expanding considerably, though not as exaggerated as the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex. A dangerous aura of annihilation spread like the wind.

Yan Jin was a man of few words but with a fierce and powerful aura. He grabbed at the air with his right hand, and the blazing light condensed into a giant hammer. The hammer was covered with sunburst patterns, as if sunlight was flowing through it.

"Fourth Soul Skill, Falcon Shadow Wind Prison!"

The three of them were of one mind. Feng Jing'er was even more furious when she saw that Nan Liujing hadn't even released his soul rings and martial souls immediately.

As the purple light shone, Feng Jing'er's delicate body suddenly split into dozens of phantom falcons, each no more than twenty centimeters long.

Dozens of phantom falcons flew rapidly around Nan Liujing's body. In the darkness, the invisible wind element was mobilized, and the subtle but impenetrable wind gradually contracted into an unbreakable wind prison.

On Nan Xiaxia and Yan Jin, a spirit ring each lit up.

"Thunderous Hell, Strangle!"

Suddenly, just as Feng Jing'er was in control and Nan Xiaxia and Yan Jin were preparing to execute the trapping beast kill, Nan Liujing issued a mental command.

Just as everyone was wondering how Nan Liujing was going to deal with it, suddenly, more than a dozen blue-purple vines surged out of his body. As soon as the vines appeared, the sky suddenly darkened, and dense lightning elements condensed like ripples, turning into lightning balls that were filled with terrifying destructive power.

The ever-expanding ball of lightning, like a volcano about to erupt, not only tore apart the soul power aura of the three Soul Kings in an instant, but also caused the surrounding天地元力 (heaven and earth elemental energy) to tremble. The soul power shield clearly sensed something was wrong, its color rapidly deepened, and its defensive capabilities surged.

"Thunder Hell Vine!"

Exclamations of surprise rang out.

While Shrek Academy students might not recognize all types of spirit beasts, they certainly knew about the Thunderous Hell Vine, hailed as the strongest lightning-attribute spirit beast on the continent.

If you directly kill a soul beast to absorb its soul ring, even a Soul Emperor would find it difficult to fuse with a thousand-year-old Thunderous Hell Vine. It's not that it can't be absorbed, but rather that if you dare to absorb it, it will dare to explode in your face.

Soul Masters who could suppress the rampage of the Thunderous Hell Vine have almost all left their mark on history.

"Not good!" Nan Xiaxia and Yan Jin's pupils shrank, and they immediately increased their soul power output.

Nan Xiaxia switched to her fourth soul skill, Annihilation Hand, and made a grabbing motion towards Nan Liujing. The pink soul power transformed into a giant pink dragon claw.

"Scorching Sun Strike!"

Yan Jin also lit up his fourth spirit ring, his arm muscles bulged, and he raised the Blazing Sun Hammer and smashed it hard into the ground.

With a deafening roar, the ground cracked open, revealing a straight, blazing ravine bursting forth, its interior surging with terrifying energy pulses hot enough to incinerate everything.

"Humph."

A disdainful snort rang out from within Nan Liujing's spiritual sea. Outside, vines sparked with lightning, like a conductor holding a baton to guide the musicians on how to move.

The dozen or so lightning orbs suspended in mid-air lit up with a dark glow, their expansion ended, and the lightning exploded, splashing violent plasma in all directions. Those swept by it shattered the elemental energy of heaven and earth, unable to even utter a wail.

The moment the Annihilation Dragon Claw touched this surging energy, it was instantly destroyed, not even leaving behind energy fragments, completely annihilated. The rapidly surging flames on the ground were also silently extinguished by the raging lightning.

call out!
The pure green-gold light transformed into countless strands, each strand capturing the raging thunder and disintegrating its violent origin.

The dazzling light had obscured the competition stage, making it impossible for outsiders to see what was happening inside.

Even through the protective barrier, many inner court students with Soul Emperor cultivation levels were still shocked.

In this era, powerful spirits are incredibly rare precisely because they can bring unimaginable boosts to their hosts' combat power.

It's no exaggeration to say that even they, without unleashing their battle armor, wouldn't dare to directly confront the impact of the exploding lightning ball.

The Thunderous Hell Vine, a ten-thousand-year-old level, is indeed terrifying!
The electric arcs flickered and intertwined with strands of green and gold, and after a few seconds, everything stopped.

The arena returned to calm. The arena had long since collapsed and broken, with only one spot intact, where a powerful and vigorous figure stood.

Nan Liujing was surrounded by raging dark blue lightning, with blinding electric light constantly flowing across his body.

His entire left side had been completely elementalized, transforming into a pure energy body that sometimes condensed into a physical form and sometimes scattered into countless lightning bolts.

The lightning element, which was so violent and destructive just a moment ago, is now quieter than the most docile pet.

In the distance, three figures were enveloped in green-gold light. As the energy dissipated, three deathly pale faces came into view.

Nan Liujing raised his left hand, electricity crackling between his fingers. Under his mental control, the Thunderous Hell Vine quickly retracted, and the violent thunder elements in the air also disappeared in no time.

But the shattered elements in the world and the completely collapsed arena reminded the onlookers of everything that had just happened.

The entire training ground was silent, everyone staring at the expressionless Nan Liujing.

As his left side slowly returned to normal, Nan Liujing nodded slightly. Ultimate attributes weren't actually that popular in the Douluo Continent III era. Battle armor could compensate for a two-tier difference in combat power, and besides, ultimate attributes would slow down a Soul Master's cultivation speed.

But he didn't have this problem, as the dimensional imprint ignored the negative effects of the ultimate attribute.

Furthermore, the ultimate lightning also delighted Nan Liujing. Zhang Geyang, who also possessed the Thunderous Hell Vine spirit, would not dare to stand at the center of the lightning eruption when the Thunderous Hell Vine erupted. But he was different. In the state of the ultimate lightning, he was the embodiment of the lightning law, ignoring all lightning damage, and even found it particularly comfortable to be immersed in it.

"Your Majesty, may we announce the verdict?" Nan Liujing turned to ask Ya Li.

Yali's expression was complicated:

"I hereby declare that Nan Liujing has won this friendly match."

Leng Yaozhu nodded approvingly. Lei Ming Yan Yu Teng had always been unruly and an unyielding spirit, but she never expected it to be so obedient in the hands of her own disciple.

If I had known this would happen, I should have stopped Zhang Geyang from acquiring the Thunderous Hell Vine Soul Spirit back then, since his Martial Soul was not a good match anyway.

"I don't agree!"

Suddenly, Nan Xiaxia let out a roar, drawing everyone's attention.

His eyes were bloodshot and his breathing was rapid. "You used your soul to fight! You cheated!"

Ya Li frowned slightly, about to say something, when Nan Liujing spoke up: "You can also use a soul spirit, why don't you? Is it because you don't have one?"

“I…” Nan Xiaxia’s expression froze.

Nan Liujing ignored him and glanced at the others. "If you all want to spar, I'll gladly oblige. I won't use my soul spirit anymore; I'll fight solely with my martial soul. But if anyone wants to come and challenge me, they'll have to offer something as collateral."

"Oh, by the way, I only accept challenges from Soul Masters who are two levels higher than me. If you can defeat me, you can exchange it for a chance to forge metal."

As soon as he finished speaking, in front of dozens of people, Nan Liujing tossed a blacksmith's badge upwards.

Under the sunlight, the badge, tumbling in the air and flashing with six stars, instantly dazzled the eyes of all the inner court students.

What the hell!

Level 6 Blacksmith?

In an instant, regardless of how people viewed Nan Liujing before, their gazes towards him completely changed.

(End of this chapter)